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When did people start calling kernels of wheat "berries"? It's not fruit, it's grain.
**** Berries is a correct term, used by people who deal in grains.....As to when, Carla Emory always used the term in her homesteading books back in the 70's !? I doubt she invented the use!
Hmm.
I don't remember hearing it before & I'm a farm kid. And this is the first time I've heard of Carla Emory.
And according to NDSU, the Minnesota Wheat Growers Association, Kansas Association of Wheat Growers, the National Association of Wheat Growers, and many other Farm based organizations, it's a "kernel".
http://www.wheatworld.org/wheat-info/fast-facts/
From the National Association of Wheat Growers website:
"Wheat is a member of the grass family that produces a dry, one-seeded fruit commonly called a kernel."
"Berry" is just an informal term; the correct botanical description is indeed "kernel". It's never really made sense to me either, so I tend to use "kernel" or "grain". People just tend to bastardize the correct terms when... I dunno, whenever we feel like it, I guess.
Like the "a tomato isn't a vegetable, it's a fruit" argument. And botanically a watermelon is a "berry", but since it doesn't fit our preconceived notion of what a berry should be, we don't call it that.
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...this is the first time I've heard of Carla Emory.
Carla Emery is the author of "The Encyclopedia of Country Living", a 800-some-odd page compilation of instructions on how to grow, store and prepare food, and IMHO should be on the bookshelf of every prepper-type. You can download a copy of an older issue here:
Survival book downloads
... but the $20-$30 for the most current edition (I think it's 10th) is money well spent. It corrects some errors in the earlier editions.